What a way to end my work day: arranging for law enforcement to pick up a potato chip bag stuffed with cash.

Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorney’s office.

In my lifetime, I have read probably 10,000 stories about municipal government in some place or other… and this is easily in the top 5.

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Jasmine Crockett nailed it! She explains EXACTLY why MAGA is going after DEI.

" They don't want any more Kamala Harris's. They don't want any more Jasmine Crockett's. But I got news for them. I don't care what they do. We will fight to the end to make sure that we get our due."

I wish all Democrats had the same level of fight in them like badass Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett.

This is, in part, why folks like Sherman and Sheridan advocated for the total destruction of the Confederacy. They were fully aware that anything short of its complete destruction and the prosecution of former Confederates would lead to the maintenance of the ideology of the CSA.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

As much as they supported this regime and they didn't get picked, lololol...

Elon Musk and SpaceX Face Federal Reviews After Violations of Security Reporting Rules Federal agencies have opened at least three reviews into whether the company and its leader complied with disclosure protocols intended to protect state secrets, people with knowledge of the matter sa...

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

A small watercolor painting of a horrified looking cartoon dumpling.

My phone just auto corrected "trauma dumping" to "trauma dumpling," so I painted this in case anyone would like a visual of my mental state.

How's everyone else doing?

Yep... Let's not forget who owns the primary US platforms either. It might go dark and when it's back on, extreme censorship will be the new reality.

All that bootlicking and the New York Times still got kicked out of their Pentagon office.

New DNC chair Ken Martin: “The fight is for our values. The fight is for working people. The fight is against Trump and the billionaires who bought this country.”

This aged well.

Medicaid payments are down, probably because the federal payment system went dark...

Yeah, highly offensive British news. I'm more pissed that in blocked from commenting in any groups or pages. I may as well be in full on fbjail

I would share it on the book face but I got a 3 day timeout today for posting a link to the BBC.com story on the "emergency tariffs"

Things are weird

Ima repost this every time Trump implements a new tariff 👇

He's taking us back about 3 three centuries.

Very clever way to knock out another voting block of folks too.
Trump will disenfranchise most of us if he gets his way. We will never "have" to vote again.

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Seems like it was a source of consternation... Hopefully the sky is clearer for you. ;)

The ways Dems are lining up behind this new administration is alarming

I thought you just blocked me, like some common fascist lol

Did they like, nix all your alts and nuke your main ?

Even trump got his back... Yikes

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

Unreal — after Impact Plastics workers died in the floods during the East TN storm because they didn’t get out in time (allegedly they weren’t allowed to leave), the company sent families of the deceased workers fast food gift cards. 😳
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Bodycam Video Shows New York Correctional Officers Pummeling Handcuffed Man In Fatal Beating Thirteen correctional officers and a nurse implicated in the attack will face termination, according to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul.

You cannot reform this.

Abolition is the only option. Defund the carceral state.

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"The same government that maintains a sprawling surveillance apparatus targeting Muslim communities, operates a discriminatory watchlist system, and continues to run Guantanamo Bay now wants to lecture America about 'countering Islamophobia.' The contempt for Muslim lives ... is staggering."

Elected Ds who complain about "wokeness" or whatever are clowning themselves and covering up their failure. They're failing to counter bigotry AND failing to improve the lives of working people. More goofy social media accounts won't fix that. Gotta fix the actual policies.